{"id":105982,"date":"2025-08-30T05:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/105982\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T05:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:09:08","slug":"ernie-els-has-an-encouraging-and-challenging-message-to-tiger-woods-regarding-the-pga-tour-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/105982\/","title":{"rendered":"Ernie Els has an encouraging \u2013 and challenging \u2013 message to Tiger Woods regarding the PGA Tour Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"

[PHOTO: Oisin Keniry\/R&A]<\/p>\n

Ernie Els hopes he\u2019ll have the opportunity to compete against Tiger Woods again next year on the PGA Tour Champions. He thinks the senior circuit would be a benefit to the 15-time major champion as well.<\/p>\n

Els was asked about Woods earlier this week at the ground-breaking of an autism-friendly recreation complex at the Els Center of Excellence in Jupiter, Florida.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve said, \u2018Please come play.\u2019 And I think it can only be beneficial to him,\u201d the four-time major winner said, according to the Palm Beach Post<\/a>. \u201cHe will get himself in golf shape. You can ride a cart without any shame and if there was one guy that should be able to drive a cart, it\u2019s him\u2026 And he can get his ass back in shape.\u201d<\/p>\n

Woods didn\u2019t make a PGA Tour start during the 2025 season after rupturing his Achilles in March. With his 50th birthday coming up in late December, the 82-time PGA Tour winner will be eligible for the PGA Tour Champions in 2026.<\/p>\n

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Els, who has played on the PGA Tour Champions since 2020 and has seven wins on the senior circuit, famously finished runner-up to Woods at two majors in 2000 plus lost an epic duel with him at Kapalua that year. But while he\u2019d be happy to reunite with Woods, he also issued a challenge to his long-time peer and rival.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeat us again\u2026 if you can,\u201d Els said<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[PHOTO: Oisin Keniry\/R&A] Ernie Els hopes he\u2019ll have the opportunity to compete against Tiger Woods again next year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-105982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}